August 5, 2018
Desirée Magney, along with co-presenter Emily Rich, will give a breakout session: Finding Your Memoir Voice. We asked Desirée a few questions about her involvement with HippoCamp this year. HM: Tell us a little about your involvement in HippoCamp this year. DM: I’ll be running a workshop with my friend and fellow memoirist, […]
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August 5, 2018
Last year, Lawrence Knorr of Sunbury Press served on our agents and editors’s panel and offered great perspective on independent presses. He returns to Lancaster this year for two events. First, he’s giving a breakout session on the economics of book publishing. Then, on Sunday, he’ll be part of the 2018 publishing panel. We […]
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August 5, 2018
Jenna McGuiggan is a returning HippoCamp attendee and speaker, and we’re so excited that she’ll once again be leading a preconference workshop about “writing into the heart of your story.” (At the time this post was published, Aug. 4, there are 13 seats left!) We asked Jenna a few questions about her involvement with […]
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August 5, 2018
Diane McCormick attended HippoCamp 2017 (and you can read about her huge success story in this post!), and this year, she’s returning as a breakout session speaker. She’ll talk about the art of interviewing, something many creative nonfiction writers may be interested in whether researching a specific topic or digging into their own lives. […]
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August 5, 2018
Elane Johnson is one of HippoCamp’s biggest fans. She’s been to every event since 2015, and this year will be her second time speaking. Last year, her book proposal flash session was a hit, and this year she’ll bring her wisdom and special brand of humor to a session on creating dialogue that doesn’t suck. […]
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August 5, 2018
Joanne Lozar Glenn is a loyal HippoCamper and a returning speaker. This year, she’s part of our flash session line-up with a topic we could all use assistance with: Describe, not prescribe: How to give helpful feedback when you’re in a writing group or class. We asked Joanne about her involvement in this year’s […]
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August 5, 2018
Returning speaker Margaret Montent will give a flash session called The Art of Organizing Reality: The Role of the Commonplace Book in Writing Creative Nonfiction. We love this unique topic idea, and can’t wait to learn more! In the meantime, we asked Margaret a few questions. HM: Tell us a little about […]
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August 5, 2018
B. Lynn Goodwin will be on our panel of writers getting started after 40. This was a topic in demand last year, so we added it to our conference proposal wish list. We received so many submissions for the topic that we decided to invite a few of them to serve on a panel […]
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July 28, 2018
Kate Meadows is a returning HippoCamp speaker. This year, her proposal fills a widely requested topic that we included in our call-for-proposal wish list. We’re so happy she submitted this. Attendees are so excited about her session, which is all about the “quiet memoir”! We asked Kate a few questions about HippoCamp. […]
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